re: I’m accepting apologies. Re: Gio

I thought Beloso had an ACL

He’s getting close to action. He’s been hitting, not sure about running around yet.

Lester, the issue is that you are moving the goal posts. In another thread you wrote,

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He’s not an everyday player on a good team & this team has too many good players

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Maybe Gio will tank, and this will turn out to be true, but if not the statement above is just plain wrong.

In this thread you wrote,

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If LSU had their normal OF talent he very likely would not be playing every day.

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That is probably true, but it’s easy to see how you are moving the goal posts from last week (1st quote) to this week (2nd quote).

You have said that Gio is a singles hitter who strikes out a ton and is an average defender. I think all of those are slightly wrong. He is not a power hitter, nor is he a singles hitter. He strikes out more than he should, but a ton? And his speed makes him a better than average outfielder. I’ve always been critical of Gio because he doesn’t make the plays on the edge of his range like Andrew Stevenson and Mark Laird used to do EVERY FRIGGIN TIME! However, Gio’s speed gets him to plays that most outfielders don’t touch.

Gio is a good SEC outfielder and average at the plate. One more stud outfielder would definitely put him on the bench, but we don’t have that.

Jay has been looking for a reason to put Pearson on the field. If Pearson was better, he would be playing by now.

He has the potential to be better than Gio career wise, but not now.

Jay seems to really like what Gio brings to the lineup, so I wouldn't expect to see anyone else there unless Gio goes 0-8 in the first 2 games this weekend with bad at bats. Then you might see a shake up. Even though he hasn't been getting hits he has still had some good at bats though. Even some of his strike outs have been after fighting off pitches and getting deep into counts. It's not always all about the numbers like you guys like to bring up in these arguments. At a certain point the numbers come into play, but I don't think Gio has had bad enough at bats to have him taken out the lineup.

I would like to see him try to bunt for a hit a little bit more. I assume the 3B is almost always even or in front of the bag for him, but a good bunt may still be a hit (pits pressure even on an average bunt) and he could even try to pull it with him to cause a bunch of traffic on the right side.

Since this thread was made, gio has went

6-43

17K 34% ( )

.139 avg
.260 obp
.233 slg

You got me.

But on another note SEC stats for Bianco?

Pearson did well. I personally want to see Stevenson get some time.